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Darius Kazemi @darius.friend.camp.ap.brid.gy · 7d

Extremely pleased to announce the release of the ActivityPub Fuzzer! This is a tool that runs in a local development environment and (partially) emulates known ActivityPub software. It can even create a fake local "public fire hose" shaped like what you might see if you hooked your […]

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Julian Fietkau @fietkau.me · 11d

@liaizon @Edent The schema pretty much follows from the requirements that individual quotes must be authorized by the quoted account, and that the authorization be (a) verifiable, and (b) revocable. Can't really accomplish that without some sort of publicly accessible certification.

In fact I […]

Julian Fietkau @fietkau.me · 11d

@Edent Yes. The flow is (1) you declare a canQuote policy, (2) accounts who fit that policy get their quote post buttons unlocked, (3) if one of them clicks it, your server gets a QuoteRequest from that actor, (4) you respond with a bespoke QuoteAuthorization, which you need to host indefinitely […]

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Julian Fietkau @fietkau.me · 11d

@Edent My understanding of (the current version of) FEP-044f is that you cannot make something quotable without issuing individual approval stamps upon request. ActivityPub development frameworks may make this easier in the future, but for the time being it's a hassle for bot developers.

I'm […]

Julian Fietkau @fietkau.me · 15d

Over the past few days I have finally gotten postgresql working with @encyclia. That was one of two remaining tasks to finish up before the alpha test, the remaining one now is logging and resource monitoring.

Although I still gotta figure out why it's slow as molasses compared to sqlite. 🫠 I […]

Julian Fietkau @fietkau.me · 16d

Oh hey @rimu, what's the story behind the color attributes? Does other software besides PieFed use them, is there an FEP?

It's way down on my to do list, but I've still got a brain cell or two dedicated to declarative federated profile accent colors. @hollo has configurable profile colors, but […]

Please add support for FEP-044f quote post authorisations · Issue #1956 · snarfed/bridgy-fed

Julian Fietkau @fietkau.me · 16d

@rockleesmiletv.bsky.social I wonder if a human looked at this and decided to submit it or if it's part of a straight-up automated data funnel.

Julian Fietkau @fietkau.me · 20d

If Mastodon quotes work on Bluesky, it's because of the generic quote property parsing. The Bridgy Fed GitHub issue on Mastodon quote features (quoting permissions, quote revocation) is here: https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/1956

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Mastodon added support for ingesting quote posts from other servers based on FEP-044f in mastodon/mastodon#34370. With that change, it seems to already recognise the quoteUrl property bridgy-fed is...

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Author Help @office.gts.authorhelp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 20d

This year's FediBookFair will be 1st/2nd November.

FediBookFair is a chance for #authors and #publishers to post about their books using the #fedibookfair hashtag.

#readers can watch or follow the hashtag to find #books to read and authors to follow. It's an excellent chance to find #christmas […]

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Julian Fietkau @fietkau.me · 21d

I want to write a program to extract a list of clickable links from a PDF page.

#pypdf can list the link positions/sizes and target URLs. But in a PDF document, links are annotations, which are separate data from the document text.

To get the display text of a clickable link in a PDF, is the […]

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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 3

This should have been big news!

Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals:
FWF 🇦🇹
RCN 🇳🇴
Forte 🇸🇪
ARIS 🇸🇮
SRC 🇸🇪
FCT 🇵🇹
CSIC 🇪🇸
DFG 🇩🇪
Formas 🇸🇪
ANR 🇫🇷
Only two of them issued press releases in […]

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Julian Fietkau @fietkau.me · Sep 3

That's a wrap on #muc2025 for me. Thank you @mucConf! 👍 I got to meet @marmarta, @raka_a11y and @maxpascher for the first time 👋, and I reconvened with @jannis after a year. 😃 I saw @kakoepferl and @GUPA_President from a distance a few times, but regrettably didn't say hi. 🥲

So @jannis, you […]

Julian Fietkau @fietkau.me · Sep 3

Starting the last day of #muc2025 by checking out of my hotel. 🙂 After that I'll be at the conference's last paper session. The only person I can spot in the list who has an account on here is @DBuschek, co-author of “Human-AI Interaction Patterns in Creative Domains and Their Time-Based […]

Julian Fietkau @fietkau.me · Sep 2

It got late at #muc2025 for me, which is expected enough for a conference dinner I suppose. I spent the afternoon with association organizers to talk about secret projects™, and from there I went to the conference dinner. Very funny crowd at my table and the food was nice. 🙂 The event was, too […]

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tucmi.wisskomm.social.ap.brid.gy @tucmi.wisskomm.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 2

Albrecht @AlbrechtKurze und Karola @kakoepferl haben auf der #muc2025 den Besteht Demo Award bekommen! Herzlichen Glückwunsch! #erika #digitaldiversity @tuchemnitz

Albrecht und Karola schauen lächelnd in die Kamera. Beide halten ihr Besteht Demo Zertifikat in den Händen.

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Julian Fietkau @fietkau.me · Sep 2

Late #muc2025 start for me today, had to spend the morning prepping stuff for the GI FB MCI meeting at 2pm today. But joining up with an academic conference at lunchtime seems appropriate enough, no? 😁 I hope paper session 3 was fun!

Julian Fietkau @fietkau.me · Sep 1

My #muc2025 day is slowly coming to an end. I ended up skipping the second paper session ("AI & Robotics" is fairly unlikely to have anything for me). I was going to go to the student #HCI research event in the afternoon, but then I remembered how overcrowded the room was last year, so I went to […]

Julian Fietkau @fietkau.me · Sep 1

Fedi people I have spotted in the author list of #muc2025 paper session 1:

"A Systematic and Validated Translation of the Perceived Empathy of Technology Scale from English to German" co-authored (and currently bein presented) by @svenmayer - https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743082

"Pop-Up […]

Julian Fietkau @fietkau.me · Sep 1

About to start my #muc2025 day with a keynote by Luigina Ciolfi @luiciolfi, should be good. 😃 Paper sessions after that, gonna be a long day ending with the poster session that I don't want to miss.

(My second presentation yesterday went well, but then I got tired and went to the hotel to sleep.)

Julian Fietkau @fietkau.me · Aug 31

First presentation of the day is done (and so is lunch), lots of cool conversations among workshop participants. I talked about my 2016-2020 project almost as much as the 2021-2024 one I was there to present. 😄 #muc2025

Julian Fietkau @fietkau.me · Aug 31

First #muc2025 workshop started with a keynote by Ceenu George (TU Berlin @tuberlin), someone I had never come across before, talking about field research methods. Prof. George seems, academically speaking, cool AF? It often feels like the German-speaking #HCI community is small and close-knit […]